Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 07/22/2005(USA)
Release Date: 12/13/2005
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS2.0
Run Time: 113 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Humor, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Alcohol Consumption, Scatological Humor
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
A washed-up ballplayer is put in charge of a pack of kids scarcely more mature than himself in this remake of the 1976
comedy hit.
Morris Buttermaker (
Billy Bob Thornton) is a former major league baseball player whose career and life has hit the skids thanks to his overwhelming fondness for booze and women. Needing a break, his lawyer (
Marcia Gay Harden) arranges for
Buttermaker to take on coaching responsibilities for the Bears, a Little League baseball team comprised of a handful of hapless losers. As
Buttermaker tries to groom his young charges into a winning team, he also gives them a glimpse of his hard-living lifestyle while they gear up to take on perennial rivals the Yankees and their arrogant
Coach Bullock (
Greg Kinnear. The 2005 version of
The Bad News Bears was written by
Glenn Ficarra and
John Requa, who previously scripted another
Billy Bob Thornton vehicle,
Bad Santa.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
